ELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY
700 Hempstead Turnpike
Elmont, NY 11003-1896
Phone: (516) 354-5280 • Fax: (516) 354-3276
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ELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY 700 Hempstead Turnpike Elmont, NY 11003-1896 Phone: (516) 354-5280 • Fax: (516) 354-3276 |
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Online information from home!
**SEARCH DATABASE BY SUBJECT**
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on the image to access information about each database. Unless otherwise noted,
to gain access you need your library card barcode number.
| Alexander Stree Press brings together the skills of traditional publishing, librarianship, and software development to create quality electronic collections. We believe that an electronic publication should: Be carefully crafted by expert editors around a specific subject or discipline. Welcome to Classical Music Library, African American Music, Smithsonian Global Sound, American Song and Contemporary World Music. | |
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. When using this database from home or in the library please click on the image icon to connect to Britannica Online. |
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Includes
Health Reference Center Academic, Business and Company Resource Center,
Junior Edition - K12, The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English,
and US Authors, Informe, Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers,
National Newspaper Index. |
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CollegeSource
Online features over 8,300 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover,
original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional
schools. Tables of Contents and Indexes are fully hyperlinked so you
can quickly find all the details you need, like complete course descriptions,
academic policies, faculty information, admission requirements, campus
maps, and much more.
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Community Resource Database of Long Island (CRD) is a computerized directory of community services and resources includes information on more than 4,500 health, human service and education agencies and programs in the Suffolk County/Long Island area. The database is very user friendly and can be instantly searched by agency/program name, subject, keyword or location and limited by geographic area or by combining search terms. The entries in the database are mostly private non-profit or government sponsored, public agencies and programs that provide services to the residents of the Suffolk County/Long Island area. This is a comprehensive directory with information on services for infants, children, teens, adults and senior citizens.
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Provides
up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for
the public and private sector organizations with global operations and
interests.
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Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally
funded by LSTA grants.
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| Search EBSCOhost for information on business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment from magazines and newspapers. | |
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Web version of Gale Research products: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Discovering Multicultural
America, Discovering US History. GaleNet includes: General Reference
Center Gold, Business and Company Resource Center, General Business
File ASAP, National Newspaper Index, Literature Resource Center - LRC,
Discovering Collection, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
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The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts – painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography – from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. When using this database from home please click on the image icon to gain access, and in the library click on grove dictionary to gain access. |
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. This great work is widely used throughout the academic and professional community, and revered by music lovers worldwide. When using this database from home please click on the image icon to gain access, and in the library click on grove dictionary to gain access. |
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The
spanish language online database from the Gale Group, with all of the
features of the English language version of Infotrac.
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This
database contains articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition,
Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and
Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in
this database is intended for informational purposes only.
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Designed
for schools, to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for
information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health,
etc..
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The
Infotrac Magazine Database allows you to search through an index of
over 8 million articles from different magazines, newspapers, health,
and business resources at your leisure from home.
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The Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC), one of nine New York State Reference and Research Library Resources System, is a multi-type library membership organization that fosters and enhances resource sharing and other cooperative activities among diverse libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties. An organization chartered and funded by the State, LILRC is also committed to working with library systems and associations in the region and throughout New York, and with the Division of Library Development of the New York State Education Department, to further its goals. |
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| Journals in Spanish. Revistas en Espanol. | |
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Poems, Stories, Essays and Speeches |
LitFinder
is the largest database for poems, stories, and essays.
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Available
via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded
by LSTA grants.
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Features Newsday full text from 1985 - present. Features New York Times full-text coverage from 1995 - current of the US newspaper of record that can be accessed from home. Features Historical New York Times from 1851 - 2002 that offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue that can be accessed from the library only. |
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| Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants. | |
| New York Online Access to Health is a unique, responsible, and authoritative bilingual health information site. This site is for both English and Spanish-speaking individuals. | |
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On-line Readers' Advisory |
An on-line readers' advisory tool that helps readers of all ages and reading levels find new books based on books they've read or topics which interest them. It provides full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles. |
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Social Issues |
SIRS Knowledge Source™ is an online resource that provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents and graphics from SIRS highly-acclaimed reference databases -- SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance via one graphical interface. Designed to enable successful searching across multiple databases, licensees will gain the advantage of having the broad array of SIRS highly-acclaimed reference databases in one easily accessible location. Remember to write down this information when accessing the SIRS database; Customer #: NY2604H, Password: 11003. |
| Available via NOVEL, a project of the New York State Library federally funded by LSTA grants. |